Aromatherapy Products 5 – use before for essential oils?
On Friday someone who has purchased aromatherapy products from me in the past was in and we got to discussing issues around the shelf life of oils. She was surprised to find out that essential oils do...
View ArticleAromatherapy 6 – carrier oil care and feeding
As using essential oil directly on the body at full strength is almost never a good idea, the next thing we should look at is carrier oils. These include products like almond oil, jojoba oil, borage...
View ArticleIntuition and the Proactive Patient
I have a friend, named Magdalen, whose periodic blogs always make me think about the insubstantial aspects of being human that somehow form the grounding and weight of our lives. Today, I received one...
View ArticleBC Generations Project
I have signed up to be a human lab rat. The BC Generations Project is a 25 year study hoping to follow 40,000 BC residents between the ages (at the start) of 35-69. The BC Generations Project is part...
View ArticleMisssing the obvious…
As a health and wellness professional I think of myself as well informed and a good clinician. I encourage people to be thoughtful with their wellness and think about all aspects of a situation when...
View Articlem-Medicine – the future of your doctor’s smartphone?
This weekend I was reading an article in the Globe and Mail regarding the impact of technology on health care, specifically mobile technology. The article referenced several areas in which mobile...
View ArticleInternational Fascia Research Congress 3 – Vancouver, BC, Day 1
***Beware – this post is a total fascia geekfest, if you are not prepared to deal with that, read a different post! Also, any factual errors are my faulty memory, not faulty presentations.*** Today...
View ArticleFood and drug administration…
I am not talking about the FDA (Food and Drug Administration – the entity in the US that approves food and drug sales) in this blog, or at least not directly, but the title just called out to me. What...
View ArticleAugust newsletter
Modalities Massage Therapy August Newsletter Dear clients, This Thursday, August 23rd, is the deadline for aromatherapy orders. Check out the webpage on direct orders for the short list of products...
View ArticlePrescription: Puppies
I checked out a link on twitter today and loved the article so much I just had to write a bit about it Written by an animal loving leukemia patient the article shares her experience of getting...
View ArticleSome gutsy learning
vis·cer·al adjective of, or relating to, the viscera relating to deep inward feelings rather than to the intellect synonyms: instinctive, instinctual, gut, deep-down, deep-seated, deep-rooted, inward...
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